Bengals Fans might be feeling mixed emotions after the tough Super Bowl loss at the end of a historical season.
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It’s possible they needed a day off work to help recover from the game and Super Bowl party.
If you skipped work today, you’re not alone.
News Center 7 put a poll on our Facebook and Instagram pages asking whether you called off work for the day after the Super Bowl.
On the Facebook poll 75% of viewers said they did not call off work today, and 25% of said they did did call in.
On Instagram, 16% of said they did call in, and 84% said they did go to work today.
“I think the first thing you have to keep in mind is the Super Bowl, even though it’s a national phenomenon, there is intense regional interest when your team is in the game,” said Doctor Daryl Smith, an associate professor in the school of business at Cedarville University.
Smith teaches courses on human resources and compensation.
“So we’re going to see a lot greater affect on our area this year than we would have seen last year. I think the polls and the surveys are really clear that a lot of people take PTO, PTO being paid time off,” Smith said.
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The polls Smith is talking about are from January 2021—the most recent data available that show what happened in offices across America the day after Bucs-Chiefs in “Super Bowl 55.”
It estimated at least eight-million Americans said they took a pre-planned day off on the Monday after the Super Bowl.
Another eight-million said they would call in sick the day after the big game.
Overall, that’s 16-million Americans not at work that Monday, leading to an estimated 3.5 billion dollars in lost productivity.
“I think another effect to think about today is the affect of winning and losing, as I mentioned earlier, the people in LA be more productive today, whereas we may see a dip from Ohioans today,” Smith said.
Smith says productivity should be viewed over an interval and not just through the lens of a single day.
“As we know, people around Dayton were very happy the last week or two – the Bengals fans were – and it could be their productivity actually went up in the past two weeks, may well see a dip here on Monday and Tuesday as people who are sad about the loss are taking off work. But over that interval of two or three weeks, we may see an increase in productivity due to the Bengals success,” Smith said.
So far, there hasn’t been any serious momentum behind some of the work to elevate the Monday after the Super Bowl to holiday status.
If that changes, News Center 7 will let you know.
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